IT Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

IT Engineer
England > East of England

The median IT Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £190, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 67 62
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 +23
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 51 18 48
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.19% 1.58% 2.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.59% 1.78% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 7 21
10th Percentile £160 - £105
25th Percentile £175 - £111
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £180 £175
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £238 £190 £225
90th Percentile £240 £245 £644
England median daily rate £190 £200 £200
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 24
10th Percentile £16.71 - £13.15
25th Percentile £19.63 - £16.19
Median hourly rate £22.04 - £17.72
75th Percentile £25.15 - £20.00
90th Percentile - - £22.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +19.76% +18.51% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 1,422 1,012 1,538
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.88% 88.93% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 454 877
10th Percentile £185 £213 £200
25th Percentile £335 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% -4.42% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £680 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 156 286
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.92 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £21.46 £16.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £43.15
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +10.08% +110.49%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.63 £84.36
England median hourly rate £26.78 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.61% -20.00% +38.46%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'IT Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

IT Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in the East of England

IT Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

IT Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Engineer in the East of England

IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex +5 13 £190 +5.56% 4
Hertfordshire -10 13 £199 -21.67% 4
Cambridgeshire +4 12 £190 - 9
Norfolk -12 10 £225 - 1
Suffolk 0 2 £190 +5.56% 2
Bedfordshire -6 1 - -
IT Engineer
England

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, IT Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (43.14%) Windows
2 17 (33.33%) Migration
2 17 (33.33%) Workflow
3 16 (31.37%) Security Cleared
3 16 (31.37%) Windows 10
4 15 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (29.41%) SC Cleared
5 14 (27.45%) Active Directory
5 14 (27.45%) Workflow Management
6 13 (25.49%) Microsoft
7 11 (21.57%) Logistics
8 10 (19.61%) Apple iOS
9 9 (17.65%) Customer Service
10 8 (15.69%) Android
10 8 (15.69%) TCP/IP
10 8 (15.69%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (13.73%) SAP
11 7 (13.73%) SCCM
12 6 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
12 6 (11.76%) PowerShell
12 6 (11.76%) Programme Management
13 5 (9.80%) DHCP
13 5 (9.80%) DNS
13 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Office
13 5 (9.80%) OneDrive
13 5 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (9.80%) Time Management
14 4 (7.84%) Software Deployment

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.88%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 15 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (9.80%) OneDrive
3 3 (5.88%) Azure
4 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.96%) IaaS
4 1 (1.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.69%) TCP/IP
1 8 (15.69%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (9.80%) DHCP
2 5 (9.80%) DNS
3 3 (5.88%) Firewall
3 3 (5.88%) VLAN
4 2 (3.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (3.92%) Network Security
4 2 (3.92%) VPN
5 1 (1.96%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.96%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.96%) NAS
5 1 (1.96%) SAN
General
1 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.76%) Electronics
3 6 (11.76%) Finance
3 6 (11.76%) Manufacturing
3 6 (11.76%) Marketing
3 6 (11.76%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.96%) Digital Health
4 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Smartphone
2 6 (11.76%) Driving Licence
3 4 (7.84%) EPoS
3 4 (7.84%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.92%) CCTV
4 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (43.14%) Windows
2 16 (31.37%) Windows 10
3 10 (19.61%) Apple iOS
4 8 (15.69%) Android
5 2 (3.92%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.92%) Mac OS X
5 2 (3.92%) VMS
6 1 (1.96%) Linux
6 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (33.33%) Migration
1 17 (33.33%) Workflow
2 14 (27.45%) Workflow Management
3 11 (21.57%) Logistics
4 9 (17.65%) Customer Service
5 6 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
5 6 (11.76%) Programme Management
6 5 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (9.80%) Time Management
7 4 (7.84%) Software Deployment
8 3 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (3.92%) Data Entry
9 2 (3.92%) Data Loss Prevention
9 2 (3.92%) End-to-End Testing
9 2 (3.92%) Knowledge Transfer
9 2 (3.92%) Mentoring
9 2 (3.92%) SDLC
9 2 (3.92%) Virtual Environments
9 2 (3.92%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.96%) Bash
2 1 (1.96%) Python
2 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 15 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) DBS Check
3 3 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (1.96%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (27.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 3 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) SCCM
2 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.73%) SAP
3 3 (5.88%) VMware
4 2 (3.92%) Apple
5 1 (1.96%) Aruba
5 1 (1.96%) Citrix
5 1 (1.96%) HP
5 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.96%) Veeam